A celebri-quote: Danny Wegman

• Danny Wegman, 62, is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and head of the Wegmans supermarket chain, which owns 72 stores in five states as well as an emerging restaurant concept connected with some of the market sites. Wegmans will open three stores this year — two in Virginia and one in Pennsylvania — and has plans for new locations in Maryland and Massachusetts as well. He was interviewed by his hometown Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

Q: What’s your take on the issue of wine in supermarkets? Why didn’t it get approved in New York State this year?

A: Well, when seven out of 10 people want something and it doesn’t go through … there are obviously some special interests in there somewhere.

The whole wine and liquor industry is a very strange subset of America that plays by totally different rules. Competition is synonymous with every other part of America except for wine and liquor.

We happen to think that wine is part of food, so we’ll probably keep working to try and see if we can’t make that happen.